Objective Glacial and snow melt is essential for the well being of all the states of Central Asia and provides over 90% oftheir water requirements. Unfortunately, climate change is causing rapid recession of the glaciers, which in theshort-term helps meet the Stat es ambitious water requirements, but in the long term will result in decreasedrunoff and increased evapotranspiration from higher temperatures. In addition because of the young nature ofthe mountain ranges they are unstable with the result that the reser voirs and potential reservoir sites have verylimited life expectances because of rapid siltation. It is also known, however that vast quantities of water iswasted by inefficient and poorly managed irrigation schemes. The water resources of the region are alreadyoverstretched and hence, in the foreseeable future the very existence of their agricultural economies is at stake.This project is designed to assess the level of risk associated with these different variables and to develop amanagement strategy fo r the water resources of the region. This will be achieved by firstly determining the rateof glacial retreat and the implications for future water resources and the assessment of the likely impact of globalchanges on the annual precipitation in the regio n. Rates of reservoir siltation will also be established byhydrographie survey, and the wastage and effectiveness of water use in the large irrigation massifs will beestablished from both historic data and satellite data based methods of estimating water use. The data will beanalysed in water resources models that are calibrated on existing data and then used to look at different scenarios up to 50 years into the future by combining the data gathered from the data collected and analysed inother work pac kages. The outcome will be a risk analysis identifying future risk and identifying futuresustainable management options for water in the Aral Basin. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processesdrinking water treatment processesengineering and technologycivil engineeringwater engineeringirrigationnatural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrologyengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technologyengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringnatural resources managementwater management Programme(s) FP6-INCO - Specific measures in support of international cooperation: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) INCO - Specific measures in support of international co-operation INCO-2002-D1 - Environmental protection Call for proposal FP6-2003-INCO-RUSSIA+NIS-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme NoE - Network of Excellence Coordinator GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITÄT HANNOVER EU contribution No data Address Welfengarten 1 HANNOVER Germany See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ALMATY INSTITUTE OF POWER ENGINEERING AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS Kazakhstan EU contribution No data Address 126 Baytursynov Street ALMATY See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data AMUDARYA BASIN WATER MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION Uzbekistan EU contribution No data Address Al-Zamahshari, 63 URGENCH See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data CENTRAL ASIAN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF IRRIGATION Uzbekistan EU contribution No data Address Karasu-4, 11 TASHKENT See on map Total cost No data INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT France EU contribution No data Address 213, rue Lafayette PARIS See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SCIENTIFIC TECHNICAL CENTER "TOZA DARYA" Uzbekistan EU contribution No data Address Karasu-4, 11 TASHKENT See on map Total cost No data STATE UNITARY ENTERPRISES "BATHYMETRIC CENTER" Uzbekistan EU contribution No data Address Orozboev -1A TASHKENT See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Highfield SOUTHAMPTON See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data WATER PROBLEM INSTITUTE OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Russia EU contribution No data Address Gubkin st., 3 MOSCOW See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data WATER PROBLEM, HYDROPOWER AND ECOLOGY INSTITUTE OF TAJIKISTAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Tajikistan EU contribution No data Address Parvin,12 DUSHANBE See on map Total cost No data
